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When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

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Michael Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 23
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I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
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The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
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I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?
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I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.
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The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
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As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
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Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
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I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.
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In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
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Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
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The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
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One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America - and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
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My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.
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Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
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The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
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You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.
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Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
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